Fic: Kill Me Romantically

[lindest]

Title: Kill Me Romantically
Author: lindest
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 1455
Characters and pairings: Ainley!Master/Peri/Five
Warnings: PWP, darkfic, mentions of sexual abuse
Spoilers: set, somehow, between The Planet of Fire and The Caves of Androzani
Disclaimer: Doctor Who is the intellectual property of the BBC. No infringement on that

Comments

[hobbit_feets]

Oh, this is absolutely gorgeous. Beautifully written, and what an ending. That last line is fantastic; and so very Ainley!Master. The prose is gorgeous; I love this line:

The Master strings their minds together like glass beads. He is the conduit, sparking with the power of their sharing. Peri cannot give pleasure but she can accept it, hungrily dragging their consciousness to hers.

And it works, weirdly, something I wouldn't have thought of this particular threesome. You deal with Peri's abuse sensitively, and the Master is so characteristically a bastard at the end, there. The moment at the end where she asks the Master how he does it, and how he answers- it's a bizarre moment of connection for these two particular characters, but wonderfully done.

*applauds* Fantastic.

[lindest]

Thank you for taking the time to read and leave such a lovely comment. You really made my evening.

There were several things I was reflecting upon as I wrote the second half of this. First, there is a distinctive difference between the way Five treats Peri in Planet of Fire versus Caves of Androzani. He dies for her, suggesting some kind of deep connection that we don't see onscreen. There is also the fact that Six is distinctly less surprised than Peri that the Master is alive and well in Mark of the Rani.

Yesterday I was capping Planet of Fire and I went through, frame by frame, the sequences with Peri and Howard. The body language says as much as any novelization backstory. I felt that if I was going to involve Peri in anything sexual, especially with two much-older men, I would have to address the issue.

[neveralarch]

This is weirdly beautiful- I say weirdly because of the subject matter, really. PWPs don't tend toward elegance, especially not ones dealing with abuse victims. But this is elegant and beautiful, especially the last few lines.

And then you end it all with a blunt, telling sentence. That's craft, right there. I love this idea, and the characters, but it's really the writing and the structure that's getting me. Good job!

[lindest]

It is certainly a different handling, but then again I don't think I've ever written a proper PWP. Thank you for reading and enjoying my effort!

[blackletter]

This is quite amazing and feels less like a PWP than a character exploration fic with sex.

Her human words are shallow, nearly devoid of meaning most of the time. But there is no Gallifreyan equivalent to these words- love and hate- which encompasses an equal emotion. They have many words, added together with the tenses of the fourth and fifth dimensions, and over a lifetime they become something close to a truth.

This is a lovely sentence, and anything that gets into Gallifreyan linguistics automatically gets extra awesome points from me.

And the Master at the end is such an evil bastard and so *him*. Just perfect.

[lindest]

This was a PWP that evolved into something more, I think. It's hard to put a label on something that starts off in the middle of a sex scene.

Gallifreyan linguistics have always been of interest to me. Managing that is always a bit of a shot in the dark, though, since everyone has a different opinion on what they may be.

Thank you for reading!

[x_los]

This has done the impossible in that it has reconciled me to d/m/companion for the piece's duration. The language is, of course, well-wielded, and the sex surprising. The use of detail ads to the sensuality. ""Is it enough?"/"No."" is a particularly good turn, as is the ending.

[lindest]

Thank you very much, x_los. The impossible, you say? Well, hurray! :)

[x_los]

The. Impossible. Doctor/Companion is mah squick.

[lindest]

Oh, my, well then. *toes Peri/Six fic back under the rug*

[tula_peiwa]

You handle this so beautifully, from the words up to the over all development of the pairing. It's just so pretty to read and really emotionally present.

The faint echoes of future possibilities are buzzing through the air. Things to come, things he can see for her, and none of them good.
Mmm, I love little hints of Time Lordiness. And, it's already been mentioned but your description of Gallifreyan vocabulary was perfect. It's just those little details that make this so much more than a PWP.

Man. I just reread this to try (unsuccessfully) to write up an awesome review for your awesome self and it still just blows me away.

[lindest]

Thanks for reading, Tula. Being blown away is a pretty high complement. :D

Sometimes I find myself becoming bogged down by the details, so I never know if I've managed to edit it down into something coherent. Forest for the trees problem, I have.

The Master's reference to what he can see for her future is my nod to the fact that canon has never really decided Peri's fate. She gets fake killed a couple times, abandoned by the Doctor on a strange planet, forced to become some guy's queen, and may or may not ever make it back home. Colin Baker wrote a story where she lived happily ever after and had grandkids. Who knows? They brought back Sarah Jane; they could bring back Peri, especially since she's still hot...